NEWS AND NOTES 
Mr. S. M. Zeller, formerly of the botanical department of the 
University of Washington at Seattle, now holds a research fellow- 
ship at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. 
Mr. Guy West Wilson, formerly forest pathologist at New 
Brunswick, New Jersey, has 'been appointed assistant professor 
of mycology and plant pathology in the State University of Iowa 
at Iowa City. 
Dr. F. D. Kern, professor of botany at State College, Pennsyl- 
vania, visited the Garden on September 5-8 to examine the her- 
barium, library, and collections of living plants under glass. 
Dr. C. J. Humphrey, forest pathologist at the Products Labo- 
ratory, Madison, Wisconsin, visited the Garden on October 23 
t6 consult the collection of polvpores. He intends to spend part 
of December in Cuba collecting fungi. 
Professor Guy W. Wilson calls attention to an error ip his 
paper on Phytophthora published in Mycologia last March. On 
pages 73 and 80, Phleophythora is incorrectly used for Phloeoph- 
thora. Klebahn’s paper on “ Eine Neue Pilzkrankheit ” (Cent. 
Bakt. II. 15: 335. 1905) should also be added to the bibliography. 
Dr. Howard J. Banker, who has been professor of botany in 
De Pauw University for the past ten years, recently resigned his 
position to become a special investigator with the Eugenics Record 
Office at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He will enter upon 
his new duties on October 1. Dr. Donald W. Davis succeeds Dr. 
Banker at De Pauw. 
Mr. J. R. Johnston, who has made extensive investigations of 
cocoanut and sugar cane diseases in tropical America, spent Au- 
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